Abul pakir jainul abedeen abdul kalam, better known as a.p.j abdul kalam, who was the 11th president of india, was born on 15th October, 1931 in a poor tamil muslim family in rameswaram. From teen age he had to fight with poverty for his family and his own education. His career life started by selling newspaper. He was admitted in tiruchiraplly sent josef college and also was graduated from there. He was very heedful in studies from childhood but after graduation he lost interest in physics and he deeply regreted for it for the next 4 years. After this listening to his inner voice he decided to do engineering course. In 1995 his name appeared in the merit list of madras institute of technology but the fees for admission was one thousand rupees. Then he had not that much money. But his mother and sister arranged that money by selling their gold jewellery and apj abdul kalam was admitted in engineering. His interest in studies increased after seeing the faith of his family members in